Undoing ‘the Vernacular’: Dismantling Structures of Raciolinguistic Supremacy.

Description: Challenges the uses and meanings of "vernacular" and "vernacularity" in literary and linguistic studies on the grounds that the terms are historically and intrinsically racist, colonialist, and/or supremacist. Using the "paradigm of metrolingualism," offers "alternative vocabularies to the "vernacular" based on examination of "language-making moments" in MLT where "linguistic operations fail to uphold the racioreligious ideologies [the tale] espouses."